With Major League Baseball entering its all-star break, and the Cardinals and Cubs both shuffling along below the .500 mark, the Washington Post’s George Will has an interesting take on the state of the game. Clearly, as Will concludes, changes must be made for the game to recapture the interest of America’s sports fans. Writes Will: EVEN if you belong in the basket of deplorables — Americans uninterested in baseball — you should be intrigued by the sport’s current problems. At the all-star break, Major League Baseball’s 2021 season is demonstrating, redundantly, that the quality of the game as entertainment…
Published July 11, 2021